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Baltimore Case Study Challenge
Presented by BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport We invite local high school students to participate in the Baltimore Case Study Challenge at the historic Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center, celebrating innovation and honoring the legacy of civil rights pioneer Thurgood Marshall. Once an abandoned school, the revitalized center now thrives as a community hub and research facility, embodying Marshall’s spirit of justice [...]
A Justice for Justice Judge Alexander Williams Jr. has dedicated his career to shaping social reform.
When Alexander Williams, Jr. was young, he spent summers in Merrifield, Virginia, with his grandfather. An elevator operator at the Merrifield Superior Court, his grandfather shared stories about civil rights lawyers and cases. “That got me excited about law, which caused me to eventually set my goal on being a lawyer,” Williams says. While he didn’t personally experience unrest related [...]
There’s an effort to turn Thurgood Marshall’s former school into a national historic site
There's an effort underway to turn the Justice Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center into a national historic site. The center located in West Baltimore is where Thurgood Marshall went to elementary school. The center is located on Division Street, not too far from where the civil rights icon grew up. More than 200 people signed an online petition in favor of [...]
Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center opens in Baltimore
President of the Finn Group, LaRian Finney, served as master of ceremony for the event, and the program began and ended in prayer by Bishop Dennis Proctor of the AME Zion Church. The emotional opening of the building featured news clippings with remarks by United States Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black man appointed to America’s highest court [...]
Beloved 50 Million Dollar Capital Portfolio
Beloved Community Service Corporation is investing more than 50 Million dollars in the development of west Baltimore. These development investments represent sustainable solutions for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Please see below for a list of our current projects: 1315 Division Street: P. S. 103 Henry Highland Garnet School (elementary school of Justice Thurgood Marshall) redeveloped into the Justice Thurgood Marshall [...]
Take a look inside $14M redo of Thurgood Marshall’s school in Upton
A fire in 2016 destroyed the second floor of the former school and nearly gutted the structure. It's now set to reopen as a community center and sign of renewal in the struggling West Baltimore neighborhood. Here's more on the building's transformation.
West Baltimore’s Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center to Revitalize Historic District and Bridge Economic Divide
One year ago, construction began on a community center in West Baltimore that will revitalize the historic district and transform the fire-damaged Public School (PS) 103 into the Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center. The center will offer educational, health, and career resources in one place, bridging the economic divide that affects underserved communities. During a recent site event, Ty Oliver Taborn, [...]